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Democracy
- How does the “boomerang effect” influence political change?
- Contrast the procedural and substantive definitions of democracy.
- What is an authoritarian political regime?
- Contrast the phases of democratic transition and democratic consolidation.
- What is the agency-based explanation of democracy?
- What group of scholars argue that structuralist vision is “teleological,” and what do they mean by this contention?
- What is the one of the main criticisms to the procedural approach?
- If culture is not fixed, what does this mean for the idea of democracy?
- Can India be considered an example of substantive democracy? Explain.
- What does the national structural approach indicate?